[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #543 - Is er een laatste druppel voor Trump

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 19:42 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump cancels pay raises for civilian federal workers in 2019

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MarcGoldwein twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 19:23:20 This saves ~$0 unless they reduce recent cap increases. It just gives appropriators/agencies more money to spend elsewhere. https://t.co/8QMzay1AHM reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 21:11 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Heeft verder niets met Trump te maken, ik zie niet in hoe dit hem aan te rekenen is.

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President Donald Trump has repeatedly lashed out against the press and called the news media an "enemy of the people," using the phrase as recently as Thursday on Twitter.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 22:38 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Volgt iemand het account @realDonaldTrump nog? Ik lees zijn tweets alleen nog via @UnfollowTrump. Lijkt me genoeg eer voor die tumor.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 22:38 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Volgt iemand het account @realDonaldTrump nog? Ik lees zijn tweets alleen nog via @UnfollowTrump. Lijkt me genoeg eer voor die tumor.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 22:59 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Nee, maar ik mijd Twitter dan ook omdat ik het een infantiliserend medium vind en dat account is zoals de Amerikanen zeggen "Exhibit A".

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 21:06 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Laatst vroeg ik (jullie ) hoe het ervoor stond met de jeugd en voter’s registration sinds Parkland.
Blijkbaar wordt er flink geregistreerd.
http://thehill.com/homene(...)r-registration?amp=1

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 23:59 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Moeten die millennials wel een keer op komen dagen anders heb je er alsnog niks aan.

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Trump rejects EU's offer to drop car tariffs to zero

President Trump on Thursday refused an offer from the European Union to lower car tariffs to zero.

“It’s not good enough,” Trump said of the offer that came earlier in the day from Brussels during an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg News.

“Their consumer habits are to buy their cars, not to buy our cars," he said.

Earlier, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told the European Parliament
that Europe would be willing to cut car tariffs to zero if the U.S was willing to do the same.

Trump again compared the EU to China, where he has ramped up a trade war with Beijing by imposing billions of tariffs on each other's goods.

“The European Union is almost as bad as China, just smaller,” Trump told Bloomberg.

Besides imposing another $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports into the United States as early as next week, Trump has asked the Commerce Department to determine whether auto imports endanger national security.

Many in the auto industry likely expect that the Commerce Department will say that those foreign autos do put U.S. security at risk.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 01:06 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Het is maar amper gelinkt aan Amerikaanse politiek, maar Alex Jones gaat hopelijk flink uitgekleed worden door rechtszaken aangespannen door familie van Sandy Hook-kinderen (en een man die door Infowars ten onrechte als dader is gedoxxed). Het vuil stuk vreten heeft geprobeerd de rechtszaak te dismissen, maar daar was de rechter het niet mee eens.

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“It’s not good enough,” Trump said of the offer that came earlier in the day from Brussels during an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg News.

“Their consumer habits are to buy their cars, not to buy our cars," he said.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 02:44 schreef Zelva het volgende:

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Dus wat Trump wil is dat we verplicht Amerikaanse troep gaan kopen hier

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 09:08 schreef Szura het volgende:
Delusional

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 10:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump threatens to pull US out of World Trade Organization

Lastig hoor. Dan moeten er nog meer deals worden gemaakt, en dat kan de man niet,

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 12:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Chuck Todd Says Mueller May Drop Something Big: ‘I Wouldn’t Miss Work Tomorrow’

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Geen idee of de man gelijk heeft, maar Trump was de afgelopen dagen wel idioot bezig. Iets zal hem getriggerd hebben, en het is vrijdag.....

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 16:15:02 New: Ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten has been charged with failing to register as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party, Bloomberg News reports. https://t.co/Y5w7oLDani reageer retweet

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A longtime Republican operative with ties to the controversial data firm hired by President Donald Trump's campaign team also has a nearly two-decade-long friendship and business relationship with a suspected Russian intelligence agent, Konstantin Kilimnik, who has landed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's crosshairs.

The Washington-based operative, Sam Patten, would not tell me whether he has been interviewed by Mueller's team as part of their investigation into Russia's election interference and potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. But Patten said that his relationship with Kilimnik--a former officer in Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) who worked closely with Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, for over a decade--has "been thoroughly explored by relevant government entities."

Patten's long friendship with Kilimnik--which stems from their time working together at the International Republican Institute in Moscow between 2001 and 2003--would likely be enough to draw scrutiny from Mueller, who appears to have homed in on Kilimnik as a potentially significant link between the Trump campaign and Russia. The special counsel's office alleged in a court filing late last month that Kilimnik still had ties to Russian intelligence services in 2016, and that his conversations with Gates in September of that year are relevant to the investigation. Manafort and Gates's arrival to the campaign team coincided with the most pivotal Russia-related episode of the election: the release of emails that had been stolen from the Democratic National Committee by hackers working for the GRU, Russia's premier military-intelligence unit.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 16:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Wat is Trump stil vandaag. Is er geen Fox & Friends?

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 16:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Drukke agenda misschien?

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New York’s attorney general says Trump Foundation bankrolled political campaign, pursues lawsuit (PBS/AP)

NEW YORK — Lawyers for President Donald Trump asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against his charitable foundation by New York’s attorney general, arguing that it was politically motivated.

In the motion Thursday, Trump attorney Alan S. Futerfas argued that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman “made it his stated mission to ‘lead the resistance’ and attack Mr. Trump whenever possible” and “used his public antipathy for Mr. Trump to solicit donations for his own re-election campaign and advance his career interests and aspirations.”

Trump very publicly announced his intention to dissolve the foundation and donate all of its remaining funds to charity, but the AG “actively stonewalled dissolution,” Futerfas wrote.

“At the same time, the NYAG turned a blind eye to serious and significant allegations of misconduct involving the Clinton Foundation, including claims that it, and its subsidiaries, violated New York law by failing to disclose $225 million in donations from foreign governments,” Futerfas wrote.

Schneiderman began investigating the Trump Foundation in 2016 following Washington Post reports that its spending personally benefited the presidential candidate. Schneiderman ordered the foundation to stop fundraising in New York.

Schneiderman resigned in May after allegations that he physically abused women he had dated; he denied the claims.

His successor, Democratic Attorney General Barbara Underwood, filed the lawsuit in June, claiming the Trump Foundation “was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality.” The suit seeks $2.8 million in restitution and the foundation’s disbandment.

The filing said Underwood continued the “inflammatory rhetoric, stating publicly that she considers her battles with the President ‘the most important work (she) has ever done’ and has vowed that such ‘work will continue.'”

Trump’s lawyers also argued that several impermissible donations by the foundation were due to clerical errors and were all corrected when brought to the attention of foundation officials.

In a statement Thursday, the attorney general’s office said it won’t back down from “holding Trump and his associates accountable for their flagrant violations of New York law.”

“As our lawsuit detailed, the Trump Foundation functioned as a personal piggy bank to serve Trump’s business and political interests,” the statement said.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 16:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Drukke agenda misschien?

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 16:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Wat is Trump stil vandaag. Is er geen Fox & Friends?

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 16:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Mogelijk, maar kan ook mogelijk te maken hebben met het feit dat de uitvaart van McCain bezig is?

Kellyanne Conway is er aanwezig trouwens:
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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 16:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Mogelijk, maar kan ook mogelijk te maken hebben met het feit dat de uitvaart van McCain bezig is?

Kellyanne Conway is er aanwezig trouwens:
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President Donald Trump will apear at Charlotte’s Carmel Country Club Friday to headline a fundraiser for two North Carolina congressional candidates.

As Tennessee Volunteer fans head to the Queen city for the season opener against WVU, there may be some road closures in place for the President's arrival and travel.

Trump will attend a lunch reception at the southeast Charlotte club. An invitation says a “round table” and photo with the president is $25,000 per person. A photo alone costs $10,000 per couple and the luncheon itself is $1,000 per person.

The event is private. No public events with the president are scheduled.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 16:57 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Is dat de uitvaart met speech van Obama?

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 16:57 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Is dat de uitvaart met speech van Obama?

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On Saturday, September 1, at approximately 7 a.m. Arizona time, a national memorial service will take place at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Senator McCain’s family, friends, congressional colleagues and staff, as well as U.S. and international leaders have been invited to attend and participate.

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On Friday, August 31, Senator McCain will lie in state at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. A ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda will begin at approximately 8 a.m. Arizona time.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 17:05 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
7.00, lekker op tijd wel.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 17:19 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Arizona time .

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The Senate Judiciary Committee has added former Solicitor General Theodore Olson and former White House counsel John Dean to the list of witnesses who will testify next week in the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court.

Olson served as solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration. He’s one of the country’s best-known lawyers, having argued the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case that stopped Al Gore’s recount in the 2000 presidential election. He’ll offer backing to a former colleague in the Bush White House. Kavanaugh served as legal counsel and later as staff secretary for Bush.

Dean ultimately cooperated with prosecutors and helped bring down Richard Nixon’s presidency, though he served a prison term for obstruction of justice. He has been a harsh critic of President Donald Trump and is listed as a Democratic witness. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Dean will “speak about the abuse of executive power.”

Democrats trying to defeat Kavanaugh’s nomination have asserted that Trump chose him for the court because he would protect the White House from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Kavanaugh has written that it would be appropriate for Congress to pass a statute that would allow lawsuits against a sitting president to be deferred until the president’s term ends. He said Congress should consider doing the same with “respect to criminal investigations and prosecutions of the President.”

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and attorney Lisa Blatt will introduce Kavanaugh when hearings begin Tuesday.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, will also testify as a Democratic witness later in the week.

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 17:18:52 (THREAD) PLEASE RETWEET this Trump-Russia news: Simon & Schuster has just listed for pre-order PROOF OF COLLUSION—the book that finally gathers into *one* narrative the *hundreds* of reliable major-media reports on Trump-Russia collusion. Read on for more. https://t.co/9df18S6arZ reageer retweet

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A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.

The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also says he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, the people said.

The previously unreported details of the July 30, 2016, breakfast with Christopher Steele, which Ohr described to lawmakers this week in a private interview, reveal an exchange of potentially explosive information about Trump between two men the president has relentlessly sought to discredit.

They add to the public understanding of those pivotal summer months as the FBI and intelligence community scrambled to untangle possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. And they reflect the concern of Steele, a longtime FBI informant whose Democratic-funded research into Trump ties to Russia was compiled into a dossier, that the Republican presidential candidate was possibly compromised and his urgent efforts to convey that anxiety to contacts at the FBI and Justice Department.

The people who discussed Ohr’s interview were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the closed session and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Among the things Ohr said he learned from Steele during the breakfast was that an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had said that Russian intelligence believed “they had Trump over a barrel,” according to people familiar with the meeting. It was not clear from Ohr’s interview whether Steele had been directly told that or had picked that up through his contacts, but the broader sentiment is echoed in Steele’s research dossier.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 17:05 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
7.00, lekker op tijd wel.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 17:57 schreef remlof het volgende:

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7:00 GMT-7 = 16:00 GMT+2. Even live kijken dus.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 17:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Bombshell leak to Toronto Star upends NAFTA talks: In secret ‘so insulting’ remarks, Trump says he isn’t compromising at all with Canada

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kpolantz twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 13:32:26 SCOOP out this am: Two prosecutors leave Mueller's office—and not for political reasons/wrongdoing. Mueller now using 15 attorneys for Russia probe https://t.co/SIGnD630ib reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 17:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Bombshell leak to Toronto Star upends NAFTA talks: In secret ‘so insulting’ remarks, Trump says he isn’t compromising at all with Canada

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 20:00:10 Update: Ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to Trump's Inaugural Committee. https://t.co/xfnTtRejUz reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 20:05:04 Patten enlisted a U.S. citizen to serve as a "straw" buyer to purchase 4 tickets for $50,000, after receiving a check for $50,000 from the firm run by Patten and Konstantin Kilimnik.That firm was reimbursed by a $50,000 wire from the Ukrainian oligarch's Cypriot bank account. https://t.co/IWZKyDBdDr reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 20:15:07 Ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten also agreed that he misled the Senate Intelligence Committee when he testified before the panel in January 2018. https://t.co/0clYel657l reageer retweet

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JoyceWhiteVance twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 17:31:36 Interestingly, the same judge presiding over the Manafort case is taking Patten's plea, which is taking place on a timeline that would make him available to testify against Manafort during his September trial in DC. https://t.co/z66GApQFyM reageer retweet

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Trump disapproval hits 60 percent in new poll

Disapproval of President Trump reached 60 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, the highest those outlets have recorded throughout his tenure.

The results, released Friday, come at a challenging time for the Trump presidency, after his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court, and his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on eight counts and faces yet another trial next month. Meanwhile, White House counsel Don McGahn is on his way out this fall, as Democrats aim to take control of the House come November. Mr. Trump's approval rating is still high among conservatives, but it has dropped from a high of 74 percent to 67 percent. And his approvals among white men without college education has also dropped 15 points -- from a high of 70 percent to 55 percent.

Mr. Trump, who often calls polls fake, has more to worry about, if this poll is accurate. A majority of those polled, 53 percent, believe he has tried to interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice, compared to 35 percent who believe has has not. Speaking of Mueller, Americans are broadly supportive of him and his investigation, according to the ABC-Washington Post poll. The survey found 63 percent support Mueller's investigation into Trump associates, while 29 percent oppose it.

While the president has complained that Manafort's prosecution was unfair, the poll finds a majority of Americans think it was justified, 67 to 17 percent, and nearly half of Republicans agree with this. Sixty-six percent of Americans oppose a Trump pardon for Manafort, and 45 percent of Republicans also oppose a pardon.

Those polled did express concern over Mr. Trump's associates, and the president's interactions with them. A majority of those polled, 61 percent, agreed that if Mr. Trump directed Cohen to pay off women, he committed a crime. And only 18 percent of those polled believed the president should pardon Manafort, while 66 percent say he should not.

Americans are split on whether impeachment proceedings should begin against Mr. Trump, something that would likely only happen if Democrats take control of Congress. Of those polled, 49 percent said impeachment proceedings should begin, while 46 percent said they should not.

There's also a split among Americans on Mr. Trump's handing of the economy, with 45 percent who approve and 47 percent who disapprove.

The poll was conducted by landline and cell phone from Aug. 26 through Aug. 29, in both English and Spanish, among 1,003 adults.

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CNBCnow twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 21:25:14 BREAKING: US, Canada trade talks end with no agreement; Trump set to notify Congress of plans to process with Mexico-only deal, but suggest Canada can still join revised NAFTA - Dow Jones https://t.co/jyTGLL3WeV reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:43 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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CNBCnow twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 21:25:14 BREAKING: US, Canada trade talks end with no agreement; Trump set to notify Congress of plans to process with Mexico-only deal, but suggest Canada can still join revised NAFTA - Dow Jones https://t.co/jyTGLL3WeV reageer retweet

Het lijkt me stug dat een bilaterale deal met Mexico realiteit wordt, maar we zullen zien. Wel ferm van Canada, 75% van hun export gaat naar de VS.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:51 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Er zou nog onderhandeld worden volgens NBC

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Trump Inaugural Committee Got Foreign Money, Plea Deal Shows

A former Paul Manafort associate who pleaded guilty to a lobbying crime admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee.

In a plea agreement made public Friday, prosecutors outlined other crimes that the lobbyist, Sam Patten, admitted to but wouldn’t be charged with. Among them was “causing foreign money” to be paid to the Trump inaugural committee. Patten signed off on the allegation.

Patten pleaded guilty earlier Friday to failing to disclose his lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

According to a court filing, Patten’s Ukrainian client wanted to attend the Trump inauguration in January 2017, but the Inauguration Committee couldn’t accept money from foreign nationals because of Federal Election Commission rules.

To get around that restriction, Patten enlisted a U.S. citizen to serve as a “straw” buyer, according to the filing. That individual, who wasn’t named, bought four tickets for $50,000, after receiving a check for $50,000 from the consulting firm run by Patten and Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort’s longtime fixer in Ukraine suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence. That firm, in turn, was reimbursed by a $50,000 wire from the Ukrainian oligarch’s Cypriot bank account, the filing says.

It’s unclear whether anyone on the Inaugural Committee was aware that the money came from a Ukrainian, or whether Patten has more to tell investigators about the matter.

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Trump’s Inaugural Committee raised a record $107 million, roughly double the amount collected for the 2008 swearing-in of Barack Obama. The 2016 committee spent about $90 million, including $26 million to an event-planning company headed by a friend of First Lady Melania Trump. Under federal law, the committee was required to disclose to the Federal Election Commission the names of donors who gave more than $200.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:31 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Weet je wie ook off-the-record dingen vertellen aan de pers?

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maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 21:48:28 This literally never happens, that the OTR portions of these interviews leaks. Most people close to White House have raised possibility that Trump ordered it put out. https://t.co/tDHFpsT6KK reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:31 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Weet je wie ook off-the-record dingen vertellen aan de pers?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 22:45:07 Yikes. @spettypi just said on @DeadlineWH that she was on the phone with Rudy Giuliani this morning when the headline came out that ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten had plead guilty and Giuliani replied, 'Oh, who's that? I've never heard of him.' reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 22:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Dit is de notificatie aan Congress:

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Kan dat zo, dat de president zegt: "Ja, misschien ook met Canada, maar wie weet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "

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President Trump is telling Canadian officials they have until Friday to sign on to his major new North American trade deal, threatening to leave them behind, rip up the continent’s existing trade pact and even, possibly, hit Canada with draconian auto tariffs.

But according to Congress, foreign officials and even members of Trump’s own administration, Friday isn’t the drop-dead deadline for Canada that the president is suggesting.

On Friday, Trump plans to send a letter to Congress notifying it of an impending trade deal, which he’s terming a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (new name to be determined). He wants to send a letter because it starts the clock on the 90-day notice that U.S. trade law requires Trump to give Congress before he can sign any agreement.

Getting that window started by Friday matters to Trump, because he wants to get a deal done by Dec. 1. That’s when Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will step down to make way for President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Obrador has had representatives at the U.S.-Mexico trade talks, but Trump doesn’t want to risk the new Mexican administration balking at a deal his team brokered with the old one.

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eyokley twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 21:09:35 Jerry Lundergan, @AlisonForKY's dad and a major fixture in Kentucky Democratic politics, has been indicted over donations to her 2014 #KYSen campaign against @SenateMajLdr. https://t.co/f3qM4h3ZaU reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 23:20:06 Dear Robert Mueller: Is anything else happening today? Anything at all? Asking for a friend. reageer retweet

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Amerika ontdekt nu dat het een bestel heeft waarin de bewoner van het Witte Huis vrijwel onaantastbaar is. Dit is ook de reden waarom de parallel tussen het Nixon-tijdperk en dat van Trump niet heel ver gaat. ʼI am not a crookʼ, zei Nixon toen hij vrijwillig opstapte. Trump blijft zitten omdat ook hij weet in hoeverre hij een crook is, en of dat verder gaat dan de guilt by assocation die tot nu toe aan het licht is gekomen.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 23:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Sinds 22 augustus begon Trumps approval rating te dalen bij fivethirtyeight. Nu vraag ik me af of dat daadwerkelijk zo is ... want het kan net zo goed een tijdelijk polling afwijkinkje zijn zo bezien, en zo ja, hoe dat dan zou komen. Eerder is het er kort over gegaan dat de disrespect voor McCain hem approval zou kunnen kosten, maar aangezien de neerwaardse trend is ingezet op de 22e lijkt eerder dat de veroordeling van Manafort meer uitgemaakt heeft... hoewel het een het ander niet uitsluit natuurlijk?

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 00:29 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ik zou niet teveel waarde hechten aan kleine fluctuaties. Als je kijkt naar de onderliggende polls dan zie je ook een extreem negatieve poll van ABC / WaPo met slechts 36% approval wat wel een redelijke outlier is. Die specifieke pollster lijkt er ook voor het eerst in lange tijd tussen te staan.

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 00:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat is wel een A+ pollster, maar buiten dat, was deze trend er ook al zonder die poll (of naja, trend lijkt me niet de goede term, maar ik denk dat we elkaar begrijpen) .

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 00:33 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Trend is echt een heel groot woord voor dergelijke fluctuaties op de korte termijn. Als ik het goed heb stond gisteren het gemiddelde nog op 41.5, nu op 40.7. de approval fluctueert al tijden een beetje van net boven de 40 tot net boven de 42.

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 00:46 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Als de approval Al praktisch een half jaar statisch is ga je al snel spijkers op laag water zoeken. Dit is ook allemaal gebaseerd op één poll van de WaPo. Tegelijkertijd begint iedere trend met een outlier zoals Nate Silver ook altijd zegt.

Wat zou de reden zijn voor dalende approval? Trump heeft wel net 2 miljoen federale ambtenaren tegen zich in het harnas gejaagd maar dat lijkt me te insignificant om een impact te hebben

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 00:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Gister was 53.5 - 41.5. Eergister 53.6 - 41.4. De disapproval had hiervoor dus al aan kracht gewonnen. Maar dit begint wel een beetje geneuzel te worden zo.

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 00:46 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Als de approval al praktisch een half jaar statisch is ga je al snel spijkers op laag water zoeken. Dit is ook allemaal gebaseerd op één poll van de WaPo. Tegelijkertijd begint iedere trend met een outlier zoals Nate Silver ook altijd zegt.

Wat zou de reden zijn voor dalende approval? Trump heeft wel net 2 miljoen federale ambtenaren tegen zich in het harnas gejaagd maar dat lijkt me te insignificant om een impact te hebben.

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 01:09 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Officieel campagnemateriaal van de Republikeinse partij in Texas. Cruz heeft recent een update gehad en heeft nu geleerd dat hij ook jongelui dient aan te spreken. Vet cool, jongeren!

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Why would the people of Texas support Ted Cruz when he has accomplished absolutely nothing for them. He is another all talk, no action pol!

https://twitter.com/realD(...)984812105793536?s=19

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 01:09 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Officieel campagnemateriaal van de Republikeinse partij in Texas. Cruz heeft recent een update gehad en heeft nu geleerd dat hij ook jongelui dient aan te spreken. Vet cool, jongeren!

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 01:29 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Godskolere

Nektattoos, Churchill en een mooie Russische ster om het af te maken...

#whatwereyouthinking

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 01:39 schreef remlof het volgende:

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En de sigaret natuurlijk, want antirookbeleid is maar betutteling want van roken krijg je helemaal geen kanker.

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 02:11 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Dit is nep, toch?

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 22:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Dit is de notificatie aan Congress:

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Kan dat zo, dat de president zegt: "Ja, misschien ook met Canada, maar wie weet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "

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But it is unclear whether a three-nation trade pact can be replaced under congressional rules with a two-nation agreement, and Trump needs Congress to sign off on any changes to NAFTA— a voting process that could take months or even years.

It is also unclear how the Mexican government will respond to Trump’s bid to cut Canada out
of the free-trade agreement, a ­quarter-century after the original NAFTA was signed. “The notification sent by the U.S. represents a step forward in the formalization of the understanding reached between Mexico and the U.S. in relation to NAFTA,” Mexican Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo said in a statement. “Mexico will participate in the negotiation of trilateral issues, while continuing to promote an agreement to which Canada is a party.”

Reworking NAFTA is one of Trump’s primary economic and foreign policy goals. He has said the 1994 deal decimated much of the U.S. manufacturing industry, causing companies across the Midwest to close factories and move jobs to Mexico.

Trump reached an agreement with Mexican leaders on Monday on a smaller trade deal that he said could replace NAFTA, but a number of GOP lawmakers have made clear they will support changes only if Canada is involved.

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The Trump administration is withholding more than 100,000 pages of Brett Kavanaugh’s records from the Bush White House on the basis of presidential privilege ahead of the Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation hearing.

The Senate Judiciary Committee was notified of the action Friday. George W. Bush’s attorney Bill Burck told the panel it had essentially completed its work compiling documents, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Bush directed them to err “on the side of transparency and disclosure, and we believe we have done so.”

But the current administration is also able to review the records, and the Trump White House “has directed that we not provide these documents,” the letter says.

In all, 267,000 pages of Kavanaugh documents from his Bush years are being made public.

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 08:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)y-moments/index.html

Een overzicht van van alles van Trump's Summer of Hell. Van zijn top met Kim en knieval voor Poetin tot nu...

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Op zaterdag 1 september 2018 12:31 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Waarom plaatsen we nog berichten van CNN eigenlijk?

CNN heeft minder kijkers dan History Channel en Garden TV.